the South -Sen. 137 



DEPARTURE from COQUIMBO. 



The Author goes aboard- another Ship. 



THE little Likelihood there was that theSieur Duch:~ 

 ne fliould fell his Goods at the Price he demanded, 

 and the Refolution he had taken to wait till the Peace was 

 proclaim'd, defigning to ftay the laft on the Coaft, flatter- 

 ing himfelf that no more Ships would come from France, 

 prevail'd with me to take fuch Meafures-as might be agree- 

 able to his Majefty's Orders, who limited the Leave he had 

 been pleas' d to grant me, for performing this Voyage, to 

 two Years ; being perfuaded that the S. Jofepb would be 

 Hill two Years longer on the Coaft, and upon its Voyage. 



I embarqued on board a Spanijh Ship, call'd the Jefus 

 Mary Jofeph y laden with Corn for Callao, commanded by 

 Don Antonio Afarcen, in order to come to fome of the 

 French Ships that had done trading, and would fuddenly 

 return to France. The Opportunity was favourable, be- 

 caufe we were to touch at the Ports reforted to, call'd 

 Puertos Inter medio or Ports in the Way. 



The 3 oth of May we fet Sail to get out of the Bay of 

 Coquimbo ; but a Calm taking us without, the Current 

 carry*d us in again, and we anchor' d in 17 Fathom Wa- 

 ter E. S. E. of the Rock Paxaro Minna. The next Day the 

 fame Thing befell us, and we came to an Anchor again. 



It is no eafy Matter to get out of that Bay, unlefs a Ship Direclhmffr 

 fits out with a good Land Breeze, which generally blows g^mgomoi 

 only from Midnight till Day. No Man muft expofe him- q q b ^J^ 

 felf to be becalm' d a little without the Mouth of the Bay, \ 

 becaiife the Currents, which fet to the Northward, drive 

 Ships in between the Iflands of Pajaros y or Birds, and the 

 Continent that is beyond the Point of the Theatins. Thole 

 Iflands are feven or eight Leagues to the N. W. of the 

 Compafs,; or N. W. ; a ( nd by N. of the World, in refpe£t~ to 

 Point Tortuga. It is true,' that with a fair Wind a Mail 



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